Early on the morning of the 9th of March, 1957, the Campbeltowrn life- boat rescued the crew of ten of the S.S.

Gracehill, of Belfast, who had taken to the ship's boats after she had gone aground in thick fog. For a full account of this service, for which the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Cox- swain Duncan Newlands, see page 428..